About this Artist

50 Cent

Hailing from Queens, New York, rapper 50 Cent had already garnered a grass-roots reputation as one of the hottest MCs around when he was tapped in the early 2000s by hip-hop golden boy Eminem for inclusion on the soundtrack to his film 8 MILE and a place of his own on the Detroit rapper's Shady label. The combination of 50 Cent's hard-edged rhyming skills, infamy due to high-profile trouble with the law, and Eminem's sponsorship gave 50 Cent all the exposure a rapper could ask for, resulting in a huge single ("Wanksta") in 2002 and a Number One album the following year.

Definitive Albums

Get Rich Or Die Tryin'
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Contemporaries
  • Bad Meets Evil
  • Brotha Lynch Hung
  • D12
  • Drag-On
  • Eminem
  • Ja Rule
  • J-Kwon
  • Memphis Bleek/Jay-Z
  • Mr. Serv-On
  • Obie Trice
  • Royce Da 5'9"
  • Shyne
  • The Clipse
  • WC
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